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Brave does not prompt to save passwords with Apple's "iCloud Passwords" extension enabled. #52614

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Using Apple's official extension is a bit of a mess with multiple pop-up boxes should up. But the biggest issue is that, while you can select from passwords in either the Brave or iCloud password managers, you cannot save new passwords to the Brave manager. You have to manually go into Brave settings and create the entry manually.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Install Apple's iCloud Passwords extension on macOS.
  2. Visit an site and create use a new password field.
  3. Brave will not prompt the user to save it and it won't be saved.

Actual result

Password is not saved to Brave password manager.

Expected result

User is prompted to save the password Brave regardless of whether the iCloud Passwords extension is enabled.

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Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.86.146 Chromium: 144.0.7559.110 (Official Build) (arm64)

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  • release (stable)
  • beta
  • nightly

Reproducibility

  • with Brave Shields disabled
  • with Brave Rewards disabled
  • in the latest version of Chrome

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